Jennie Sweet-Cushman
Biographic Data
| ID | 2243060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennie Sweet-Cushman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweet-Cushman |
| SIGNATURE | SWEET-CUSHMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chatham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2652-5713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Path to Women’s Candidate Emergence is Paved with Metaphorical Resistance
Research on identity-based motivation shows that people are motivated to take action to achieve their long-term goals when they perceive a connection between their current identity (i.e. “today me”) and an image of an accomplished identity in the future. Research inspired by Conceptual Metaphor Theory reveals that this connection can be strengthened by framing goal pursuit metaphorically as a journey along a continuous path connecting current and…
Legislating in the First Female Majority State Legislature
In 2019, the Nevada Legislature became the first state legislature in the nation to have a majority of female members; that was followed in 2023 by women holding majorities in both houses. Nevada thus offers a first-ever opportunity to study how a legislature is affected by majority female control. In this paper, we examine the implications of Nevada’s female majority for the way the legislature functions, with an emphasis on bill sponsorship and…
Intersectional Motherhood and Candidate Evaluations in the United States
In the United States, emphasizing their families and talking about parenthood can be a potent strategy for political candidates as voters use information about a candidate’s family life to make assessments of the candidate’s personal attributes and issue competencies. We nonetheless know little about how a candidate’s race affects these assessments. We thus consider how Black women use and benefit from politicizing motherhood, and we argue that t…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender and Political Psychology
Role Model Do No Harm
Elected women can inspire other women to emerge as candidates, but little research has explored how individual women respond to political role models. Psychology scholarship suggests two factors important to role model influence on career decisions (like candidate emergence). First, role models affect behavior when they seem attainable. Second, motivation is dependent upon a sense of belonging in the social context, which role models may bolster.…
Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching
Legislative vs. Executive Political Offices
Prone to Agreement
In contemporary discourse, context matters for how people converse with one another about political topics. Discussion may occur face-to-face or online, topics of conversation may be controversial or less so, and gender dynamics may vary. We argue that men and women are affected differently by various contextual discussion factors. We employ a unique quasi-experiment that varies these factors and uses discourse analysis to examine patterns of gen…
Who dominates the conversation? The effect of gender, discussion medium, and controversy on political discussion
Previous research finds that when citizens discuss political topics, men tend to predominate. In this study, we investigate how discussion of political issues changes in different settings, using a design in which male and female participants discussed two political topics—one controversial, the other not—in in a variety of settings. We examine two aspects of discussion: the extent of participation and the style of participation. We find that wom…
A Format-Flexible Pedagogy of Civil Discourse
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Social Media Learning as a Pedagogical Tool
Both social media use and the civic disengagement of college students continue to be on the rise, posing instruction challenges around how and what students are interested in learning in their college classrooms. This pedagogical case study examines the effectiveness of using Twitter to develop a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) that incorporates the use of social media learning—specifically using social media to expose students to a greater d…
Where does the pipeline get leaky? The progressive ambition of school board members and personal and political network recruitment
Public school boards are a significant exception to the significant gender gap in political representation. Throughout the country, 44 percent of board members are women; this is a potentially significant female candidate pool for higher office, given that, for example, of the state legislators who held prior elective office, 26 percent of them had served on a school board. With such a collection of experienced candidates, why then, are so few wo…
See it; be it? The use of role models in campaign trainings for women
Campaign training programs for women often spotlight women political leaders as role models for attendees, presumably with the intention that their achievements will help inspire other women to aspire to political leadership themselves. There is, however, contradictory evidence in the extant literature on role model effects, which exists primarily outside of political science. Although never applied directly to purposeful efforts to inspire women…
Family-friendly academic conferences
Traveling to academic conferences to present research and network is essential for scholars to achieve success in the academy. Scholars with family obligations face barriers to participating in conferences, partly because most regional and national conferences are not organized to be family-friendly. While balancing travel to academic conferences with family responsibilities is a challenge faced by all academics, this burden can be especially hig…
Understanding political participation in West Africa
Strengthening citizen participation in West Africa is an increasingly important aspect of democratic development – especially in mitigating setbacks arising from poor governance. This article uses Round 4 Afrobarometer data to explore what stimulates local-level participation by examining determinants against the backdrop of eight West African nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. Using a negative b…
Gender, risk assessment, and political ambition
In the United States, women have long held the right to vote and can participate fully in the political process, and yet they are underrepresented at all levels of elected office. Worldwide, men's dominance in the realm of politics has also been the norm. To date, scholars have focused on supply-side and demand-side explanations of women's underrepresentation but differences in how men and women assess electoral risk (the risk involved in seeking…
When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections
Journal Article When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections Get access When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections by Kathleen Dolan. New York, Oxford University Press, 2014. 264 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $24.95. Jennie Sweet-Cushman Jennie Sweet-Cushman Chatham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science…
Legislative vs. Executive Political Offices
Gender, risk assessment, and political ambition
In the United States, women have long held the right to vote and can participate fully in the political process, and yet they are underrepresented at all levels of elected office. Worldwide, men's dominance in the realm of politics has also been the norm. To date, scholars have focused on supply-side and demand-side explanations of women's underrepresentation but differences in how men and women assess electoral risk (the risk involved in seeking…
See it; be it? The use of role models in campaign trainings for women
Campaign training programs for women often spotlight women political leaders as role models for attendees, presumably with the intention that their achievements will help inspire other women to aspire to political leadership themselves. There is, however, contradictory evidence in the extant literature on role model effects, which exists primarily outside of political science. Although never applied directly to purposeful efforts to inspire women…
Where does the pipeline get leaky? The progressive ambition of school board members and personal and political network recruitment
Public school boards are a significant exception to the significant gender gap in political representation. Throughout the country, 44 percent of board members are women; this is a potentially significant female candidate pool for higher office, given that, for example, of the state legislators who held prior elective office, 26 percent of them had served on a school board. With such a collection of experienced candidates, why then, are so few wo…
When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections
Journal Article When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections Get access When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections by Kathleen Dolan. New York, Oxford University Press, 2014. 264 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $24.95. Jennie Sweet-Cushman Jennie Sweet-Cushman Chatham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science…
Intersectional Motherhood and Candidate Evaluations in the United States
In the United States, emphasizing their families and talking about parenthood can be a potent strategy for political candidates as voters use information about a candidate’s family life to make assessments of the candidate’s personal attributes and issue competencies. We nonetheless know little about how a candidate’s race affects these assessments. We thus consider how Black women use and benefit from politicizing motherhood, and we argue that t…
Prone to Agreement
In contemporary discourse, context matters for how people converse with one another about political topics. Discussion may occur face-to-face or online, topics of conversation may be controversial or less so, and gender dynamics may vary. We argue that men and women are affected differently by various contextual discussion factors. We employ a unique quasi-experiment that varies these factors and uses discourse analysis to examine patterns of gen…
Who dominates the conversation? The effect of gender, discussion medium, and controversy on political discussion
Previous research finds that when citizens discuss political topics, men tend to predominate. In this study, we investigate how discussion of political issues changes in different settings, using a design in which male and female participants discussed two political topics—one controversial, the other not—in in a variety of settings. We examine two aspects of discussion: the extent of participation and the style of participation. We find that wom…
Family-friendly academic conferences
Traveling to academic conferences to present research and network is essential for scholars to achieve success in the academy. Scholars with family obligations face barriers to participating in conferences, partly because most regional and national conferences are not organized to be family-friendly. While balancing travel to academic conferences with family responsibilities is a challenge faced by all academics, this burden can be especially hig…
Understanding political participation in West Africa
Strengthening citizen participation in West Africa is an increasingly important aspect of democratic development – especially in mitigating setbacks arising from poor governance. This article uses Round 4 Afrobarometer data to explore what stimulates local-level participation by examining determinants against the backdrop of eight West African nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. Using a negative b…
A Format-Flexible Pedagogy of Civil Discourse
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Social Media Learning as a Pedagogical Tool
Both social media use and the civic disengagement of college students continue to be on the rise, posing instruction challenges around how and what students are interested in learning in their college classrooms. This pedagogical case study examines the effectiveness of using Twitter to develop a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) that incorporates the use of social media learning—specifically using social media to expose students to a greater d…
When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections
Journal Article When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections Get access When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections by Kathleen Dolan. New York, Oxford University Press, 2014. 264 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $24.95. Jennie Sweet-Cushman Jennie Sweet-Cushman Chatham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science…
Gender, risk assessment, and political ambition
In the United States, women have long held the right to vote and can participate fully in the political process, and yet they are underrepresented at all levels of elected office. Worldwide, men's dominance in the realm of politics has also been the norm. To date, scholars have focused on supply-side and demand-side explanations of women's underrepresentation but differences in how men and women assess electoral risk (the risk involved in seeking…
Family-friendly academic conferences
Traveling to academic conferences to present research and network is essential for scholars to achieve success in the academy. Scholars with family obligations face barriers to participating in conferences, partly because most regional and national conferences are not organized to be family-friendly. While balancing travel to academic conferences with family responsibilities is a challenge faced by all academics, this burden can be especially hig…
Understanding political participation in West Africa
Strengthening citizen participation in West Africa is an increasingly important aspect of democratic development – especially in mitigating setbacks arising from poor governance. This article uses Round 4 Afrobarometer data to explore what stimulates local-level participation by examining determinants against the backdrop of eight West African nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. Using a negative b…
Where does the pipeline get leaky? The progressive ambition of school board members and personal and political network recruitment
Public school boards are a significant exception to the significant gender gap in political representation. Throughout the country, 44 percent of board members are women; this is a potentially significant female candidate pool for higher office, given that, for example, of the state legislators who held prior elective office, 26 percent of them had served on a school board. With such a collection of experienced candidates, why then, are so few wo…
See it; be it? The use of role models in campaign trainings for women
Campaign training programs for women often spotlight women political leaders as role models for attendees, presumably with the intention that their achievements will help inspire other women to aspire to political leadership themselves. There is, however, contradictory evidence in the extant literature on role model effects, which exists primarily outside of political science. Although never applied directly to purposeful efforts to inspire women…
Social Media Learning as a Pedagogical Tool
Both social media use and the civic disengagement of college students continue to be on the rise, posing instruction challenges around how and what students are interested in learning in their college classrooms. This pedagogical case study examines the effectiveness of using Twitter to develop a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) that incorporates the use of social media learning—specifically using social media to expose students to a greater d…
Who dominates the conversation? The effect of gender, discussion medium, and controversy on political discussion
Previous research finds that when citizens discuss political topics, men tend to predominate. In this study, we investigate how discussion of political issues changes in different settings, using a design in which male and female participants discussed two political topics—one controversial, the other not—in in a variety of settings. We examine two aspects of discussion: the extent of participation and the style of participation. We find that wom…
A Format-Flexible Pedagogy of Civil Discourse
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching
Legislative vs. Executive Political Offices
Prone to Agreement
In contemporary discourse, context matters for how people converse with one another about political topics. Discussion may occur face-to-face or online, topics of conversation may be controversial or less so, and gender dynamics may vary. We argue that men and women are affected differently by various contextual discussion factors. We employ a unique quasi-experiment that varies these factors and uses discourse analysis to examine patterns of gen…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender and Political Psychology
Role Model Do No Harm
Elected women can inspire other women to emerge as candidates, but little research has explored how individual women respond to political role models. Psychology scholarship suggests two factors important to role model influence on career decisions (like candidate emergence). First, role models affect behavior when they seem attainable. Second, motivation is dependent upon a sense of belonging in the social context, which role models may bolster.…
Intersectional Motherhood and Candidate Evaluations in the United States
In the United States, emphasizing their families and talking about parenthood can be a potent strategy for political candidates as voters use information about a candidate’s family life to make assessments of the candidate’s personal attributes and issue competencies. We nonetheless know little about how a candidate’s race affects these assessments. We thus consider how Black women use and benefit from politicizing motherhood, and we argue that t…
Legislating in the First Female Majority State Legislature
In 2019, the Nevada Legislature became the first state legislature in the nation to have a majority of female members; that was followed in 2023 by women holding majorities in both houses. Nevada thus offers a first-ever opportunity to study how a legislature is affected by majority female control. In this paper, we examine the implications of Nevada’s female majority for the way the legislature functions, with an emphasis on bill sponsorship and…
The Path to Women’s Candidate Emergence is Paved with Metaphorical Resistance
Research on identity-based motivation shows that people are motivated to take action to achieve their long-term goals when they perceive a connection between their current identity (i.e. “today me”) and an image of an accomplished identity in the future. Research inspired by Conceptual Metaphor Theory reveals that this connection can be strengthened by framing goal pursuit metaphorically as a journey along a continuous path connecting current and…
Political science (15 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Public relations (5 works)